App Tab Bar Icons for iPhone

App Tab Bar Icons for iPhone offer iPhone, iPad, and iPod developers a quick and easy way to create stunning navigation bars, toolbars, and tab bars in their apps. Numerous raster and vector options are available to accommodate the latest super-high resolution Retina displays used in iPhone 5 and similar Apple devices. Thanks to the high-pixel count and scalable vector versions available, App Tab Bar Icons for iPhone will look edgy and three-dimensional. All icons have controllable depth that can be adjusted with an extra Alpha-channel layer. The App Tab Bar Icons for iPhone collection includes images one's likely to encounter in toolbars and navigation bars used in iPhone, iPad, and iPod apps.

Note: The icon you provide for toolbars, navigation bars, and tab bars is used as a mask to create the icon you see in your application. It is not necessary to use full-color icons. We offer pure white and black icons with appropriate alpha transparency. iOS adds all required effects itself.

Standard Icon Sizes for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Apps

When designing apps for current generations of Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices, application developers must use a specific set of images meeting Apple's stringent Custom Icon and Image Creation Guidelines. As a bare minimum, developers need an application icon and a launch image. However, Apple recommends that apps provide quite a few additional images, such as an icon used by the system when displaying Spotlight search results and Settings. Apps that can open certain file types (such as documents, tunes, or video clips) will require icons to represent their supported file types. Most apps will also need a fair share of graphics to draw their navigation bars, tab bars and toolbars.

As a general rule, Apple has very strict requirements on how to draw these icons so that each app running on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod platform conforms to common specifications and visual guidelines. Specifications ensure that your app looks in line with what's offered by Apple and third-party developers.

Designing Icons for the Retina Display

Apple's new pixel-packed Retina display packs more pixels into a small area than was possible just a few years ago. These high-definition displays allow showing the highest definition graphics to display crisp images with stunning dimension and depth. As such, Retina displays will naturally require higher resolution icons to be used in navigation bars, toolbars, and tab bars. Texture-reach, highly detailed, and more realistic images with multiple small elements and carvings will create the most pleasing effect of three-dimensionality and depth. To look great graphics on Retina displays, developers need their icons in resolutions of 60x60 pixels.

Icons for Navigation Bars, Toolbars, and Tab Bars

While, generally, apps can use graphics in any supported size or resolution, there are a few common sizes your icons must include in order for the system to draw them properly in navigation bars, toolbars, and tab bars.

Tab bar icons are specified in two resolutions. 30 x 30 pixel versions are employed in tab bars displayed in iPad, iPhone and iPod touch apps in standard resolution. In addition, iPhone and iPod touch apps with the Retina display will benefit from having super-sized images in sizes of 60 x 60 pixels.

For toolbar and navigation bar icons, use icons in the following sizes:

For iPhone and iPod touch

20 x 20

40 x 40 (high resolution)

For iPad:

20 x 20

For tab bar icons, use icons in the following sizes:

For iPhone and iPod touch:

30 x 30

60 x 60 (high resolution)

For iPad:

30 x 30

Note: The icon you provide for toolbars, tab bars, and navigation bars is used as a mask to create the icon you see in your iOS application. It is not required to use a full-color icon.
We offer pure white and black icons with appropriate alpha transparency.

App Tab Bar Icons for iPhone feature:

Sizes: 20x20, 30x30, 40x40, 60x60
File formats: PNG, PSD, AI, SVG, PDF
Colors: white, black
Background: transparent
Icon quantity: 255
File quantity: 5610
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